Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Carrefour faltered , doubling over as the bullet caught him just below the sternum . |
| 32 | He continued to go forward and even when Hodkinson caught him flush on the jaw with a straight right , it did n't stop his forward march . |
| 33 | The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek . |
| 34 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 35 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 36 | She beamed at her husband , bravely facing the barrage of produce , and winced as a particularly juicy specimen caught him right on the chin . |
| 37 | She caught him again on the way back between oven and table , and sank herself into him once more , but after a moment became conscious that he was having to make a considerable effort to hold the hot saucepan away from her at arm 's length . |
| 38 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 39 | Her hand shot out and caught him fully on the side of the face , causing him to wince . |
| 40 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 41 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 42 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 43 | But his victory at Stoke on Saturday has him back at the top of the list . |
| 44 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 45 | ‘ She says she found him just outside the ship . ’ |
| 46 | I found him here on the floor with his neck broken . |
| 47 | He found him out in the garden , sitting on a wooden bench by the pond . |
| 48 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 49 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 50 | Oddly enough the worst was his shoulder , where the man had seized it to pull him out of the car . |
| 51 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 52 | And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby . |
| 53 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 54 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 56 | The strip had carried him right to the end of the branch . |
| 57 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 58 | In spite of his explanations they 'd insisted on signing him out at the little cabin , and he 'd snatched the case out of his car and run back , wondering why it always rained . |
| 59 | ‘ He seems to hold David Howell , who 's still owed three weeks ' money , particularly responsible and wants him out of the club . |
| 60 | James was full of praise for the medical teams who helped him both at the scene and at Coleraine hospital . |